Incubator Application Winter 2017we are seekingfor-profitPeaceTech startups. The application form includes 5 sections to learn about the team, founders and startup's stage of development.

Peace Technology is a subcategory of Persuasive Technology, which is technology that changes human behavior. Specifically, PeaceTech is mediating technology. It measurably increases specific positive engagement behavior, between two different groups, across some difference boundary. Targeted groups can be specific or general. For example, an app that primarily increases fair trade between Budhists and Muslims, focused on bridging that particular religious difference boundary, is quite specific. By contrast, a more general app like Uber, by measurably increasing positive engagement between broader groups like riders and passengers, simultaneously increases positive engagement across many difference boundaries, including age, gender, culture, language, and many more. For this ten-week cohort, we are prioritizing PeaceTech that primarily bridges the gender difference boundary, specifically between the group identities of women and men. So:a. How will your technology measurably increase positive engagement between men and women?In this program, we prioritize PeaceTech that increases new economic activity between groups, to create mutual benefit, in excess of the cost of engagement, for both groups. We prioritize these high engagement quality technologies because they provide a path to sustainable and even scalable peace, in ways that other levels of positive engagement (while also vital) do not. So:b. How will your technology create new, mutually beneficial economic relationships between men and women, that exceed the costs and risks of engagement for both parties?c. How will your technology sustain those activities? d. How will you scale those activities?

If you have cofounder(s)/team, please tell us about any other projects that the two or more of you created together. Include urls if possible.

How long have the founders/team known one another and how did you meet?

Why are you interested to be a part of the incubator program at Peace Innovation Lab?

What is your desired outcome after one quarter of the incubator program at Peace Innovation Lab?

Startup's Stage Of Development:

How far along are you?

If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written?

Which of the following best describes your progress?

Nothing Built

Sketches

Mocks / Renderings

Prototype

Private Beta

Public Beta

Taking Preorders

Launched

Do you have revenue?

YesNo

If yes, describe your paying customers:

If you have already participated or committed to participate in an incubator, "accelerator" or "pre-accelerator" program, please tell us about it.

About the Idea:

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making?

How is {{answer_39651185}} a peace tech company?

What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?

Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?

What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?

How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users (e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network), how will you overcome that?

How do or will you make money? How much could you make?

About The Equity:

Have you incorporated, or formed any legal entity (like an LLC) yet?

If you have not formed the company yet, describe the planned equity ownership breakdown among the founders, employees and any other proposed stockholders.(This question is as much for you as us.)